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Electron Zone Radio

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talk show discussing technology related topics. Hosted by Bill (Michael Urichek) and Steve (Ptolemy Slocum). Bill represents the "Fruit OS" users, an obvious parody of Apple's Mac OS. Steve represents "TOS" users which stands for Technical Operating System and is a parody of Microsoft's DOS. The talk show hosts are also apparently caricatures of Microsoft chairman Bill Gates and Apple CEO Steve Jobs. The show's callers are largely a pack of internet nerds or internet haters - a sly reference to The Matrix is also made when a woman calls in asking about a virtual reality movie called The Mainframe.

In one segment, Richard Burns from WCTR in GTA San Andreas calls in, mentioning that he was fired shortly after the 1992 Los Santos riots. In another segment, a caller calls from Carcer City and says that the FBI tries to arrest him whenever he downloads child pornography pictures from the internet.

Chatterbox

The radio program made famous in GTA III returns with Lazlow as host. By 2001, the show will be given its own full-time frequency. An announcer on the radio station says that he was kicked out of both Vice City and San Andreas, since he was a disc jockey at both places. Lazlow's callers are diverse but generally offensive, including an internet freak who wants to knock down the Liberty City Cathedral, a foul-mouthed cannibal, a man obsessed with shaving and an innocent-sounding 7-year-old boy who knows an awful lot of swearwords for someone so young. The mother (Ma Cipriani) of the game's main character also calls in, but gets angry with Lazlow, calling him Lazarus and threatening him with a Mafia assassination. This is likely a homage to Grand Theft Auto III when Toni calls Lazlow explaining how much his mother controls his life. At one point Lazlow makes reference to himself and "Donald" having big plans; this ends up being Donald Love who after his "adventures" with Toni in this game ends up running LCFR's successor, Chatterbox FM in the GTA timeframe of 2001.

Heartland Values with Nurse Bob

This program is a talk show parodying The Dr. Phil Show (though Dr. Phil's show started in 2003, five years after the year LCS takes place). It has a live in-studio audience and is hosted by a southern hillbilly named Nurse Bob (Chuck Montgomery). The name "Nurse Bob" is itself a reference to talk show host Dr. Phil, as evidenced by similar or near-direct Dr. Phil quotes made by Nurse Bob. (e.g. "My patented definition of insanity is doing the same thing repeatedly, and expecting different results." which can be heard a number of times on The Dr. Phil Show, minus the word 'Patented' which Nurse Bob added). Nurse Bob also appears to be a devout Christian--as many stereotypical hillbillies are--and threatens many of his callers that if they don't shape up, they will be burning for eternity in the fiery pits of Hell. He also hints at having been molested by his father when he was young.

The show no longer exists in 2001.

Breathing World

A spiritual enlightment talk show hosted by a new wave hippie by the name of Melissa Chowder (Ashley Albert). Throughout the show, Melissa interviews Crow (Gregg Martin). Crow is on the show to promote Crowfest '98, a concert tour. The name Crowfest '98 may have been taken from Ozzfest '98, a series of concerts for Ozzy Osbourne. Crow talks on the show and says that after quitting the band, he has since seen spiritual enlightenment through the fact that he has joined a religious cult. Crow was previously referenced in GTA San Andreas. Crow is an immense egomaniac who offends Melissa greatly with his constant talk of Amazonian drugs, fleecing native tribes in Peru and "having five hours worth of Tantric Sex", a possible reference to the rock star Sting. (Crow had previously been mentioned in a WCTR News report in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.)

The show no longer exists in 2001.

Coq O Vin

French chef Richard Goblin (Mike Shapiro), referenced in San Andreas during Entertaining America, hosts this show where he mutilates live animals and insults the American values when it comes to cooking by saying "I would rather eat the contents of my toilet bowl after a fatman with hemerods, who ate curry, then eat the shit most Americans eat". He also takes calls from fans of the show, most of whom he alienates by slaughtering animals in their general direction, viciously insulting them or actually attacking them. Over the course of the show, Richard forces a cow to give birth directly into his pan and then butchers her, stuffs a live goose and chops up the eyeballs and perineum of a large mammal and makes them into a calzone. At the end of the show, the LCFR announcer makes a sarcastic comment about the show being "popular" among animal rights activists, which may show that the program is a sly reference to the controversy surrounding the airing of the cooking show "Out of the Frying Pan" in 1977, when animal rights campaigners protested against the butchering of a pig live on air.

The show no longer exists in 2001.

News Reports

Like its San Andreas counterpart, LCFR features occasional news reports that change during the course of the game as missions are completed. The reports are narrated by an unidentified female newscaster who sounds like (and is played by the same voice actress as) WCTR News' Lianne Forget. A key difference is that these news reports are not exclusive to LCFR and are heard on other radio stations as events warrant.

See also

WCTR in GTA San Andreas, and WKTT and PLR in GTA IV for similarly formatted radio stations.